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Wintry Winter 2018-19 Discussion

Webberweather53 said:
1926-27 by far & away is my favorite winter in NC since the late 19th century, I hope to live to see one like this someday. It was actually quite mild overall, with February 1927 being the warmest one on record until a few years ago. This is definitely my kind of winter, warm overall, gets cold only when it "needs" to be then backs off & every time it gets cold, we get plastered with a huge winter storm.

These seasonal snowfall totals are mind boggling, the March 1927 blizzard didn't act completely alone, another nice event in early January 1927 solidified this winter's status as utterly legendary. The statewide seasonal snowfall average came out to nearly 19", almost 3 times higher than the climatological mean & it is NC's snowiest winter from 1895-96 thru 1934-35, just edging out 1898-99.

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Good god 33 inches.

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SD said:
Good god 33 inches.

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Yeah it puts a whole new perspective on what a big winter is in NC and how there are many instances where seasonal temps don't really mean much and 1926-27 takes that to the extreme, obviously it helps because seasonal snowfall and mean temperatures are weakly-moderately correlated but it explains only a small fraction of the variability in snowfall.. The snowfall average in your portion of northern Harnett county from 1895-96 thru 1926-27 is about 7.2", slightly higher than what Raleigh's is today. I've also noticed after sifting thru all the data, quality controlling & filling the gaps in between, modern snowfall averages in places like Winston-Salem for example are actually higher than what they were in the early 20th century, not everybody in the state is losing snow, in some cases it's actually increasing.
 
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On the whole, North American winter snow cover extent is on the rise.
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DaculaWeather said:
On the whole, North American winter snow cover extent is on the rise.
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DaculaWeather said:
And fall is REALLY on the rise...

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That's quite interesting. You would think that N America would lose snow due to GW over decades, but maybe it has to do with it in itself. I'm uncertain as to how to explain it other than maybe the warming caused more moisture in the atmosphere, and hence more snowfall. I'm probably wrong, and I'm sure someone has a better explanation.
 
And that is the most likely culprit. It's no different with minimum temps either, minimums have risen in part due to increased water vapor in the atmosphere.
 
GaWx said:
Steve,
You've returned from a very long hiatus! Good to see you. Hopefully you'll stick around for awhile.
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:) Thanks! I'll try. I stay pretty busy over on my Facebook page where I'm over 17,000 followers now, so I stay hopping, especially when the weather gets bad! :)
 
Webberweather53 said:
1926-27 by far & away is my favorite winter in NC since the late 19th century, I hope to live to see one like this someday. It was actually quite mild overall, with February 1927 being the warmest one on record until a few years ago. This is definitely my kind of winter, warm overall, gets cold only when it "needs" to be then backs off & every time it gets cold, we get plastered with a huge winter storm.

These seasonal snowfall totals are mind boggling, the March 1927 blizzard didn't act completely alone, another nice event in early January 1927 solidified this winter's status as utterly legendary. The statewide seasonal snowfall average came out to nearly 19", almost 3 times higher than the climatological mean & it is NC's snowiest winter from 1895-96 thru 1934-35, just edging out 1898-99.

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16FA0400-F713-4938-9658-CE960874694A.jpeg Not liking the looks of this! This is the absolute worst ( not one mention of snow and any possible cold month, above avg!!!!) that I have ever read from The Old Farmers Almanac!! Depressing, but luckily, I think they have about the same accuracy as JB!:D
 
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